Re: git-index-pack really does suck..

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

Make it conditionnal on --stdin then.  This covers all cases where we 
really want the secure thing to happen, and the --stdin case already 
perform the atomic rename-and-move thing when the pack is fully indexed.

Repacking objects in a repository uses pack-objects without
using index-pack, as you suggested Chris.  Is there a sane usage
of index-pack that does not use --stdin?  I do not think of any.

If there isn't, the "conditional on --stdin" suggestion means we
unconditionally do the secure thing for all the sane usage, and
go unsecure for an insane usage that we do not really care about.

If so, it seems to me that it would be the simplest not to touch
the code at all, except that missing free().

Am I missing something?